Improvement in wagon-brake



JOSE-PH" WALTON, OF 'DE'LAVA'N, WIS-GONSI-N.

Letters Patent No. 74,642, dated February 18, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN W AGON-BRAKE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAVIYICONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WAL'rumof Deluvan, in the countyof Walworth, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improved Wagon and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and tothe letters of reference markcd' thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention. I

Figure 2, a plan view of the same with the box removed.

Figure 3, a view of the coupling-pin. i v I The object of my invention is to arrange a box, carried upon afour wheeled vehicle, so that it may be dumped over the rear axle, and to construct an automatic brakewhich can be easily removed from the wagon when not required for, use.

In order to give a correct understanding of my invention, I have marked corresponding parts with similar letters, and will give a detailed description. I' I A represents a common wagon-box; G G the bolsters, (l C the axles, and ET the rear hounds of a common wagon, the wheels beingrepresented by the lines X X. S S represent two guides rigidly attached to the rear axle and the hounds F F, and are secured at the front ends by means of one or more metal plates H, fig; 2, and are arranged to allow the reach 13 to have alongitudiual motion between them, platcs U, figs. land 2, being used to keep the reach parallel with the top of the guides. A pin, I, is-made to pass through one of the guides S and into the reach B, and hold it in place, andalso made with a nib for passing through the eye oil a spring, J, attached to one of the hounds F. This pin has a handle, as seen at fig. 3, projecting downward, and used for drawing it out of a hole in the reach, andfor locking against a projection, K, attached to the 'under side of the guide, through which the pin passes, and thus allow the reach to slide.- When the pin I is to re-cnter the hole, the handle must be removed from projection K, which will allow spring J to'throw it in. Tworolle'rs D are hung to the rear bolster by a rod, e, the ends of which are driven into said bolster. The object of these rollers is to allow the rear bolster to pass .forward under box A when it is to be dumped, and the reason for hnngingthcm on the rod 6 is to prevent them from projecting so far above the bolster as would be the case if they were arranged on its top, as is now the case withlumb'er-carts. A link, M, is secured to a staple at the underside of box A, and to a stap le, L, attached to the reach, and is used to prevent said boirfrom being drawn ofl from the hind bolster after it is dumped, as seen by red lines Z Z. The brake m consists of a piece of timber hung to box A, at both sides, by means of hooks V, and is'held in' position at the under side by means of a pin, 11, passing into said brake, and the reach B, and will act of itself when the pin I is drawn out of the reach as described.

I Operation.

-Wl 1en the box is to be dumped, the hind wheels should ,first be blocked, and the pin I drawn out, after which the forward wheels can be run back until the box falls doivn, as shown at Z Z. i The box should then be tipped back so as to hear on the forward bolster, and the forward'wheels moved so as to draw the reach out to its first position, and pin I put inthe hole, which will-again place the box for use. V 7' Having thus described my devicepwhntl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The brake m, hung to box A by hooks V, in combination with reach B. substantially as set forth.

2., The combination of guides S S, plate H, pin I, spring J, and rol e s, substantially W JOSEPH WALTON.

Witnesses Geo. 'L. Omens, A. HAYWARD. 

